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- Comment on Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day wait 8 months ago:
He built most of an AK receiver out of a shovel but probably 90% of the gun (by mass) was off the shelf AK parts. And he has decent tools. But it’s still pretty impressive.
Here’s one of the original threads.. It has cats!
- Comment on Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day wait 8 months ago:
Yeah, I realized I misread it a minute later and tried to delete the comment but lemmys weird.
- Comment on Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day wait 8 months ago:
Or buying/building a milling machine. Or a lathe. Or a drill, a hacksaw, and some files.
15 day waiting periods for Home Depot trips. You better plan those plumbing projects in advance.
- Comment on Finally getting the CBM 3016 Home! 9 months ago:
In a SVX no less. Nifty!
- Comment on What is a "tax write off"? 9 months ago:
Overly simplistic and assuming you are talking about the US: So you spent 80M making a movie but for whatever reason it never makes it out of production, you never see any return on this investment. But overall this year you made 100M from something else. When you do your taxes, you can “write off” this 80M spent as a loss, so you only have to pay taxes on the remaining 20 million. It doesn’t deduct 80M from taxes owed.
- Comment on What’s Usenet and how can I access it with modern hardware (phones/laptops)? 9 months ago:
Usenet is a decentralized network that works very much like the fediverse here. Anything uploaded to one server gets sent out to all the servers; that’s why you can log onto lemmy.world and see posts made on say lemm.ee. Likewise something posted to one usenet server gets sent out to all the others. And these servers are being operated by individual entities (again, much like lemmy). Whoever owns the server you’re downloading from is having to pay for everything it sends out. Which is why most of the free ones will let you access the text portions but not the file downloads.
You do need a special program to connect to usenet. It’s built into a lot of older email clients (thunderbird is a good option).
There’s no one single usenet company for the same reason there’s no one single lemmy instance. (I’m sure someone has explained it better somewhere else in this post).
- Comment on What’s Usenet and how can I access it with modern hardware (phones/laptops)? 9 months ago:
in the era of free services, why do you still have to pay for Usenet access?
Bandwidth costs money. And usenet isn’t collecting and selling your info to recoup those costs like most “free” services. A lot of ISPs do offer free usenet access to customers, albeit somewhat neutered. You can browse the bulletin boards but most of the file downloads are going to be filtered out. That’s the part you have to pay for.
- Comment on Can I infer a breach of Epic Games payment systems? 9 months ago:
Could be Epic, could be privacy.com, or could be malware on your system. But every time I’ve tried alerting places they are leaking credit card #'s, I get the runaround or ignored. So I just assume it’s on my end, take the necessary precautions, and let them figure out on their own if it’s their problem.
- Comment on Help me remember a "back-to-back chaise longue" from TV or film 10 months ago:
Reminds me of The Love Toilet from SNL.
- Comment on Are humans the only animal that wipes things off? 10 months ago:
My cat wipes the condensation off windows so she can look out.
- Comment on The Outer Worlds w/ All DLC free until 26 Dec 2023 4PM UTC 10 months ago:
Your account is unable to download any more free games at this time, please wait 24 hours before trying to redeem a free game again.
That’s lame if true. I hadn’t logged into epic in almost 2 weeks.
- Comment on Do you play games over the holidays with your family? 10 months ago:
MarioKart starts getting violent later in the evening once the liquor is flowing.
- Comment on The full source code for GTA 5 has been publicly leaked 10 months ago:
And Usenet before that.
- Comment on (Bad) dog owners be like 11 months ago:
I can understand people being scared of big dogs.
It wasn’t until after I realised that non-dog people would have shit themselves and shown fear. Which could have triggered the dog to attack.
So that’s a well founded fear; no? IMO if your pet, regardless what it is, requires other people to know how to act to avoid being possibly mauled; it has absolutely no business being in public.
- Comment on (Bad) dog owners be like 11 months ago:
Agreed. Forced sterilization should be the law.
- Comment on I'm now concerned about the billions I flushed in my teen years... 11 months ago:
- Comment on tube tester 11 months ago:
Sylvania now: “Just throw that piece of shit in the trash and buy a new one”
- Comment on Average Lemmy Active Users by Month 11 months ago:
Exactly. I don’t need the most users. The internet was better back when it wasn’t everybody.
- Comment on What's wrong with 'eggs'? 11 months ago:
“Butt” is describing an area, not an orifice.
- Comment on YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users 11 months ago:
Same here. Firefox, ublock origin, privacy badger. Videos start playing in under 2 seconds. I’ve also never got the adblock warning.
Lucky I guess.
- Comment on Can we all agree on this one thing, that most people hate ai, but the bots on lemmy are an acception since they bring life to the communities when activities dries up. 1 year ago:
Nah, I block all the bots.
- Comment on Why is that on the internet, people assume you're a male from America, but if you're a vegan on the internet, people assume you're female? 1 year ago:
Demographics. It may not be the case anymore but in the early days of the internet it was a majority American males. That trope has stuck around.
And statistically, vegans are roughly twice as likely to be women.
- Comment on Good career advice 1 year ago:
Yeah, but that’s because they manage to post in every. single. thread. It’s impressive.
- Comment on Bots copy pasting Reddit - is there a method to block them all? 1 year ago:
I just uncheck “Show bot accounts” Gets rid of most.
- Comment on what budget 3d printer would you suggest for a beginner? 1 year ago:
Absolutely one of the Ender 3s. Easy to find around $100, especially if you live near a Microcenter. They are such popular printers that any problem you may have has already been asked and solved.
If you’re mainly interested in figurines, then a resin printer will give you better quality. But it comes with smelly chemicals and more work/cleanup.
- Comment on How well do Swedish fish keep past their best by date? 1 year ago:
A vacuum sealer is your friend. I buy giant bags of everything now and split it up into single serving portions that last a long time.
- Comment on New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer 1 year ago:
Must pass a background check before entering Home Depot.
- Comment on Mass protests have failed to bring about social change. It’s time for a new strategy. 1 year ago:
Yeah, I’ve heard if you have a gun in your house the police will just give up and move on the the next.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Math is hard.
- Comment on One of my favorite 3D printed organizations. Custom silverware drawer 1 year ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polylactic_acid Is the most conmanly used printing material. I would rather eat that than just about any other “food safe” traditional plastic in my kitchen.
There are other concerns about the actual food safeness of printed objects because of their physical structure being a harbor for bacteria and such, but ingestion isn’t one of them.